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As I was doing the promo of my book, I was thinking that I shouldn’t over-do it on the “winning” posts. Posts where I’m smiling hard with a long-winded, inspiring caption about how “happy I am” that the book is out. One, because during most of the process of publishing, I was not smiling from cheek-to-cheek at all…

We didn’t care how ugly the clothes were as long as it had one of the ten acceptable logos. I’m talking about me and everyone in middle school. The pressure to wear name brand clothes was so intense, we would beg...

There’s a unicorn horn store on Flatbush avenue. I repeat. There’s a unicorn horn store on Flatbush avenue in Brooklyn, New York of the United States America. Set off the alarms. Send in the guards. My culture is drowning, and is no condition to make it out.

“This place is ratchet”. It had been three weeks, six days and seventeen hours since I had moved into my new apartment. I had been flirting with this guy on and off for the past two years. He found me on....

The most unrealistic part about Sex & The City is not the ridiculously expensive brunches or witty jokes about casual sex, both happen all the time in New York. It’s honestly the heels. As much as we’d like to believe

Does anybody care about how single women move around? Does anybody wonder how we carry boxes of our shit from one house to another? They are heavy. The ones that aren’t heavy are awkward shaped. It’s ridiculous. I texted around.

It’s 2:33, I am broken hearted and my suitcase is drifting between my feet as the train moves. The suitcase with all my shit. The suitcase I used to pack and leave my horrible relationship. The train isn’t crowded.

I had no idea how to get in college and it’s always been embarrassing for me. While my friends had parents who would make phone calls and file papers for them, I for some reason was on my own for this one.

I am an introvert. I don’t say that to be cute. I don’t say it to sound trendy. I say it because it’s a truth I’ve had to navigate through as a human being who craves connection just like anyone else. If I am not careful, days or even weeks can go by where I get so wrapped up in my writing and my work, that I have zero in-person interactions.

Culture rewards being creative as this unique crown of a skill but let’s be honest, is it all what it’s cracked up to be? In reality being a creative usually means you’re an idea-infested, undisciplined,...

Isn’t it funny how that works? You pick up your daughter’s paint brush, you start a novel in the dark, you play around in photoshop for three hours, you write a song while riding the bus and it’s almost like you’ve opened a can of worms.

He was white, a little chubby and had the worst outfit in the whole club, but he was dancing with more passion than everybody in the club had combined.It looked like his hoodie was white, or was at least supposed to be.

To my little girl, I’ve spent some time here and I regret to inform you that life is sober in it’s despair. Take all the good you can and don’t be surprised by the evils. You can be angered. You can be sad. But don’t be surprised.

Creativity starts with your imagination. People assume that because they can use their imagination, that they must be “creative”. Okay wait. To be creative means to create something in the world that wasn’t there before.